I’M A Max-Level Regressor [EN]: Chapter 114

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Swallow.

I swallowed hard without realizing it.

She continued calmly, in the same tone as usual, articulating each word.

“I’ll join the team. I’m ready to do anything. As long as you don’t exclude me from dungeon raids and only use me as a personal secretary… I’m confident I can handle external affairs as well.”

“Ah, perhaps you thought I only wanted to assign you tasks because I said Yoon Byeol’s work is so efficient…”

“There’s always a ‘what if’ scenario.”

“Haha, I praised Byeol’s work performance ‘too.’ It wasn’t ‘only’ that I praised.”

“As long as I’m not just a half-baked team member, I can do anything!”

“That’s the answer I wanted to hear most.”

I couldn’t help but smile.

She was quite famous in the KSA [Korean Special Ability Association, a fictional organization] for her quick and efficient work and skillful strategic compromises.

If she joins, handling external affairs and progress won’t be a problem.

I’m sure she’ll be 100 times better than me at handling the details.

“Please take care of me, Shin-hwa.”

“I should be the one asking. We’ll create the best team. A team that grows like crazy and rakes in money.”

Tightly.

I shook hands with Yoon Byeol.

I could feel an unprecedented firm resolve in her hand, which was full of strength.

Soon, I made eye contact with the priest, who was next in line.

“Haha… I’ve been wanting to be on Shin-hwa’s team from the start. I’m just grateful if you’ll take me in.”

“Father, it’s not like you’re an abandoned child, what do you mean ‘take you in’…”

“I’ll assist Byeol if she needs help. Of course, I’ll do my part in the dungeon. And I won’t neglect training.”

“Is that a yes?”

“Of course! It feels like a second life as an Awakened [person with supernatural abilities] is opening up for me; my heart is already pounding!”

The priest jumping up and down in place looked like an innocent child.

With that, the team formation was confirmed.

Han So-joon was still sending me messages almost every day, begging me to raid the next dungeon with him.

Since he’s also eager, he’ll probably accept if I make a serious offer.

An all-rounder who can cover tanking, dealing, and even ranged attacks. And a debuffer, an assassin, and a healer.

With this combination of four, there shouldn’t be any problems in most dungeon raids.

Unless it’s a dungeon that requires focusing on extreme ranged attacks.

Of course, if we go to such a dungeon, we’ll find additional team members to support it from the start.

I’m a Regressor, after all. I should use my head wisely.

“……”

Looking at the priest and Yoon Byeol staring at me with sparkling eyes, old memories came to mind.

The priest’s last moments in the battle with Magus, losing his life to Mad Bear right before my eyes.

And Yoon Byeol, who couldn’t overcome the limits of SSS-rank [highest rank for an Awakened] and lost her life in the final battle before the Great Disaster.

Knowing the tragic end of these two, I felt even more mixed emotions.

“I’ll also do my best to help the two of you become Awakened who can unlock even more of your potential than you do now.”

“Please take care of me, Shin-hwa!”

“Please take care of me.”

“Let’s run fiercely for me and for the two of you.”

“For Shin-hwa’s glorious retirement! Hahaha!”

Seeing the priest joking about the retirement I had seriously talked about before…

It seems they still don’t know that I really want to retire.

‘Well, they’ll find out eventually.’

The island purchase is also in progress, and I plan to raid the dungeons in the South Pacific later.

There’s still plenty of time, and plenty of opportunities to tell the story. I decided not to rush.

“Shin-hwa, have you thought of a team name?”

“That’s right. What’s the team name?”

“Mythic.”

Mythical, of myth.

I came up with the name of the team I had wanted to use for a long time.

Team Mythic.

It was the beginning of the first step.

* * *

9 a.m.

I was at Yanghwa Building.

I was there to clean up the office that had been assigned to me before the guild contract ended.

In fact, I didn’t use it often.

When Yanghwa Guild scheduled something, I usually stayed home and joined them.

But still, it was a space that they had provided for me.

I was organizing the plants and information books that Jin Bo-mi and other executives had left behind in one place.

“But why is it so quiet?”

I didn’t know what schedule the guild had today because I came out without prior notice.

However, by 9 a.m., the guild’s Awakened should be filling the offices next door one by one.

But today, it was strangely quiet as a mouse.

It was like I was the only one who came to work on a holiday? That’s how quiet it was.

‘They’ll come on their own when the time comes. Or they’ll contact me.’

I didn’t think much of it and brought up the thoughts that had been in my head since dawn.

It was about modification.

Recently, I had to modify my hair out of necessity in the sudden battle with Joo Cheon-ho.

However, hair modification was just a modification that could only make hair sharp like needles.

The difficulty was the lowest, so the utilization value and variables were not very diverse.

“Modifying the brain is the most important thing…”

Brain modification.

It was one of the important modifications that I had been aiming for since I regressed.

That’s why obtaining the Flower of Transcendence was also a preliminary task to prepare for brain modification.

“Should I just do a little test?”

I decided to just test the waters.

If I calculate that my body can withstand it to some extent, I’m going to try brain modification.

Concentrate a large amount of magic power on the brain.

And slowly circulate it throughout the brain, checking whether the transcendent talent can be expanded explosively.

But.

“Ugh…!”

Immediately, I felt extreme pain as if a drill was mercilessly digging deep into my brain.

‘Is it still too much?’

It seemed that my body was not yet ready to accept brain modification.

If I try to force the modification in this state, there is a 99.9% chance that I will become an idiot.

It’s not just a simple failure where the attempt fails, but it means that the human being Kang Shin-hwa itself will become a ‘failure.’

‘There is one sure way.’

I thought of a method that I hadn’t considered as another option.

A way to perfectly succeed in brain modification without failure with a 100% probability!

That was to consume not one, but a total of three Flowers of Transcendence.

That way, the activation state of the brain reaches 100%, allowing modification without any side effects.

It’s easy to say.

It’s just that the process of obtaining the remaining two flowers is very difficult and arduous.

If I remember correctly.

The remaining two dungeons with the Flower of Transcendence are located in the United States and Japan.

Beep. Beep beep.

When I searched the dungeon classification number as I thought, the location and owner of the dungeon came out.

[Team Osaka]

[Elijah Group]

“If it’s Team Osaka, it’s the guild run by Hara Gintetsu, Hara Marina’s grandfather, so I think I can somehow get through her.”

The Japanese dungeon seemed to have a lower hurdle. The problem is the other one.

“Why does the Elijah Group have to be involved here…”

I was full of suspicion about Elijah because of the montage I obtained after killing the three black magicians last time.

Whether I like it or not, I have to make connections with the Elijah Group to collect two flowers.

Even if an Awakened from Korea suddenly applies to raid their dungeon, they won’t accept it.

I need a valid reason, and the person who wants to hear that reason will naturally be Elijah Low.

First, I decided to contact Marina, who has the possibility of saving one of the two.

But she didn’t answer the phone because she was nocturnal. She’s probably sleeping.

But right then.

-This is an in-house announcement.

-The welcoming event for VIPs scheduled for this morning will begin soon. All guild members in the company are requested to gather in the central lobby.

“Welcoming event for VIPs?”

It was news I hadn’t heard.

Usually, if there is an in-house event, there is a separate notice in advance.

Seeing that there was no mention of it, it seemed to be a secretly conducted schedule.

Perhaps it was a schedule that was suddenly set on the day or a secret visit.

In the case of a visit by a VIP.

In order to prevent excessive attention from the media or reporters, the schedule is often kept confidential.

I contacted Jin Bo-mi right away.

-Yes?

“Bo-mi, it’s me. I came to the office early today, what’s this in-house broadcast about?”

-Ah, this? I didn’t contact Shin-hwa separately because I thought you’d find it annoying. You said you hate attending events because they’re annoying, right?

“That’s true… but what’s going on?”

-VIPs are scheduled to visit in 5 minutes. Wait! Let’s go together! 1st floor! Press the 1st floor!

I could clearly picture Jin Bo-mi moving busily over the receiver.

“Who is it?”

-Elijah Group executives are coming! They hate media exposure so much that they kept it confidential until just before the visit.

“What?”

Speak of the devil.

A name I hadn’t expected popped out of Jin Bo-mi’s mouth.

-Elijah Low is scheduled to visit in person. Our Yanghwa Group developed security construction, dungeon equipment, and black zone wireless devices, right?

“Ah, for related purchases?”

-Yes. And there are flagship projects that are secretly being carried out at the group level. But only my father knows about this.

It was enough to be interested.

The Elijah Group is a huge guild that is second to none in the United States.

In addition, Yanghwa Group is a leading company that boasts globally differentiated high technology.

It was not strange that the two groups were cooperating with each other.

However, the problem is.

‘If he’s the mastermind connected to Leccerro, it’s a different story.’

It was because of this.

The montage taken from the black magician had Elijah’s face drawn on it.

It’s not just a similar look-alike, it’s the same face as if it were drawn by adding his own picture.

I was somehow bothered by the fact that Elijah was making connections with the Yanghwa Guild, not anywhere else.

‘I have to meet him first. If he has the same ring as me, it will definitely resonate.’

I fiddled with the ring on my left hand.

I had felt resonance in front of Jang Dong-shik’s hideout before.

I missed him though.

If I feel the same resonance from Elijah today, we will recognize each other’s existence.

That I feel it means that he can feel the reaction of the ring in the same way.

Right then.

“Already?”

Wooing. Wooing. Wooing.

The ring started reacting early.

Is it because the opponent’s power is so strong?

I’m on the upper floor of the building, and Elijah hasn’t even arrived in front of the building yet.

This impatient ring of mine had already recognized its ‘kin’ and was shaking its body.